Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pulling at him would only have pulled him deeper into the weed . |
| 2 | The title alone had cost him two weeks ' work . |
| 3 | He took the boy 's small , still limp body in his arms , and wept with a passion of which his business associates would not have believed him capable . |
| 4 | Even so , I 'd not have thought him important enough . ’ |
| 5 | His pride could not have permitted him this simple insight . |
| 6 | In Mr Wolfenden 's case , Lord Ross , the Lord Justice-Clerk , sitting with Lords Murray and Kincraig , decided that the stipendiary magistrate at Glasgow should not have found him guilty . |
| 7 | He gave vent to his anger and lambasted the shipping manager for not having alerted him that Clarion Call was overdue . |
| 8 | An unemployed actor went to his agent to complain about his agent not having found him any work in months . |
| 9 | His eyes shone with mischief , and she wondered how she could ever have thought him boring . |
| 10 | Divine intervention might also have allowed him two straightforward chances ; a top-edged hook off Ambrose when on 22 spiralled to long-leg where Walsh got both hands to it without holding onto it , and at 66 , two balls after the end of his 125- run second wicket partnership with Wessels , he edged Patrick Patterson and Williams made a hash of a regulation catch . |
| 11 | Though she clearly had made him angry , Constance knew that her decision had been right . |
| 12 | Good lord ! and but for his hand going up she would really have brained him this time , and then where would she have been ? |
| 13 | If he was right , then Lorton 's ingenuity might well have taken him one step further . |
| 14 | His features were regular , rather ordinary , though some might well have thought him handsome . |
| 15 | And probably he would have found the Whistler more understandable than the pop star whose gyrations would surely have convinced him that man was in the grip of his final , manic St Vitus 's dance . |
| 16 | That could n't have done him any good . ’ |
| 17 | Anyway , his years there ca n't have done him any good . ’ |
| 18 | Er could n't have done him any harm . |
| 19 | I would n't have minded him blind . |
| 20 | I would n't have omitted him three hours before , but now it seemed I must face up to the situation as it was without him . |
| 21 | Is this a struggle inside Frodo 's soul , between his conscious will and his unconscious wickedness ( the sort of wickedness which might earlier have made him reluctant to hand over the Ring to Gandalf ) ? |
| 22 | The spirit of Rogal Dorn must indeed have granted him supraphysical strength to wrestle with such weight as well as with his own . |
| 23 | Eventually , most of his estates in Northumberland were entailed upon the Percy family , who may indeed have advanced him some of the money he needed in 1332 . |
| 24 | The thought of being there had made him fearful then . |
| 25 | ‘ You should never have sent him that valentine . ’ |
| 26 | Even Crump himself might be better meeting his Judgement now , after a life of useful business , than later when the disturbances of retirement — already foreshadowed — would most likely have made him less of a man than he was now , less happy , less useful , perhaps even diminished , by turbulent pettiness , in the very qualities which might now ensure his redemption . |